This laugh-out-loud picture book features a hilarious exchange of letters between a girl and a very unusual giant! Join @PForde123 at @IFLDublin on Tuesday 19th May for a cheeky adventure with a GIANT 💌 #ILFD Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3Qv4vph

Spooky silliness reigns as stepsiblings Ted and Frankie are forced to team up to save their hotel from a ghostly duke and his restless spirits. Join @doyle_cat at @IFLDublin on Sunday 17th May for a spook-tacular adventure! 👻 #ILFD Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/4d0ZNIy

Sneak peek alert‼️ Take a look at the brand-new picture book OOPS! 🥹 A wonderfully funny follow-up to ACHOO! and PLEASE! by award-winning author Simon Philip, beautifully illustrated by Nathan Reed✍️ Shop OOPS! and get the full series from Thursday 21st May. 🤗

A blueprint for tackling the UK’s reading crisis 📚💡70% of participants in @Bloomsbury_News & @Literacy_Trust's reading for pleasure programme #LitUpHastings said it made them want to read more https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/latest-news/hastings-offers-blueprint-for-tackling-reading-crisis

Create your own magical underwater creature and dream up new worlds beneath the waves. Join Becca Rogers this Saturday for an interactive writing workshop inspired by The Girl with Gills. Bring your imagination and let's dive in!🧜 Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/4ffxV4X

📚⚡️Harry Potter Book Day returns on Thursday 8th October 2026! Get ready to take part in a global celebration of spells and potions. Find out more and register for your free downloadable event kit now at HarryPotterBookDay.com

Spooky silliness reigns as stepsiblings Ted and Frankie are forced to team up to save their hotel from a ghostly duke and his restless spirits. Join @doyle_cat at @IFLDublin on Sunday 17th May for a spook-tacular adventure! 👻 #ILFD Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/4d0ZNIy

Bloomsbury Children's are so pleased to have the wonderful We Grew a Dragon by Emma Chinnery shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2026! Congrats to the author and thank you Team BooksAreMyBag #IndieBookAwards

The Girls' Guide to Growing Up Great 2nd edition by Sophie Elkan 📚 Changing Bodies, Periods, Relationships and Life Online Preorder here: www.bloomsbury.com/girls-guide-to-growing-up-great-2nd-edition-9781399425650/

This laugh-out-loud picture book features a hilarious exchange of letters between a girl and a very unusual giant! Join @PForde123 at @IFLDublin on Tuesday 19th May for a cheeky adventure with a GIANT 💌 #ILFD Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3Qv4vph

Create your very own comic characters at this interactive drawalong event at @ILFDublin on Sunday 17th May with award-winning illustrator and author Sheena Dempsey 🐧🐧 ! #ILFD @SheenaDempsey Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3OZGjeb

This laugh-out-loud picture book features a hilarious exchange of letters between a girl and a very unusual giant! Join @PForde123 at @IFLDublin on Tuesday 19th May for a cheeky adventure with a GIANT 💌 #ILFD Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3Qv4vph

Spooky silliness reigns as stepsiblings Ted and Frankie are forced to team up to save their hotel from a ghostly duke and his restless spirits. Join @doyle_cat at @IFLDublin on Sunday 17th May for a spook-tacular adventure! 👻 #ILFD Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/4d0ZNIy

Create your very own comic characters at this interactive drawalong event at @ILFDublin on Sunday 17th May with award-winning illustrator and author Sheena Dempsey 🐧🐧 ! #ILFD @SheenaDempsey Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3OZGjeb

Join @mrdillypresents for a side-splitting adventure with author-illustrator Beccy Blake for a FREE Schools Livestream. Complete with a draw-along from Beccy and an introduction to the hilariously riotous world of Chicken Hill! 🌵🧟 🎟️: https://bit.ly/3QjZEaf

Join @mrdillypresents for a side-splitting adventure with author-illustrator Beccy Blake for a FREE Schools Livestream. Complete with a draw-along from Beccy and an introduction to the hilariously riotous world of Chicken Hill! 🌵🧟 🎟️: https://bit.ly/3QjZEaf

Looking for a fun and adventurous way to spend your Saturday? Why not join Jonna Nadin for a hilarious afternoon with the (allegedly) WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD! 📖 🥳 Fun for all the family @CDFKidsLitFest on April 26th 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4dyiSmi #CardiffKidsLitFest

Join @mrdillypresents for a side-splitting adventure with author-illustrator Beccy Blake for a FREE Schools Livestream. Complete with a draw-along from Beccy and an introduction to the hilariously riotous world of Chicken Hill! 🌵🧟 🎟️: https://bit.ly/3QjZEaf

Looking for a fun and adventurous way to spend your Saturday? Why not join Jonna Nadin for a hilarious afternoon with the (allegedly) WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD! 📖 🥳 Fun for all the family @CDFKidsLitFest on April 26th 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4dyiSmi #CardiffKidsLitFest

Looking for a fun and adventurous way to spend your Saturday? Why not join Jonna Nadin for a hilarious afternoon with the (allegedly) WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD! 📖 🥳 Fun for all the family @CDFKidsLitFest on April 26th 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4dyiSmi #CardiffKidsLitFest

Happy Publication Day! 📚💫 New picture books out today: 🎈 The Family Quiz by Robert Tregoning, illustrated by Yasmeen Ismail Fiction for kids 9+: 🌊 Hidden Treasure by Jessie Burton ☁️ All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson

New Young Adult Fiction out today! 🚨⤵️⬅️📕 Dead Straight Line by Malcolm Duffy From seeking thrills to finding friends, choosing the right path in life is never a dead straight line. Take a look: www.bloomsbury.com/dead-straight-line-9781035919277/

Looking for a fun and adventurous way to spend your Saturday? Why not join Jonna Nadin for a hilarious afternoon with the (allegedly) WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD! 📖 🥳 Fun for all the family @CDFKidsLitFest on April 26th 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4dyiSmi #CardiffKidsLitFest

📖😱 Kalynn Bayron is back with Tell the Ghosts I’m Gone, a brand new paranormal mystery where unique gifts meet unimaginable consequences UK cover art by Jim Tierney Out 1st September 2026 - preorder now! 😱📖🖤 www.bloomsbury.com/tell-the-ghosts-im-gone-9781526678652/

Join Little Bear 🐻 for a new adventure with the incredible Michael Rosen @MichaelRosenYes at Oxford Literary Festival @OxfordLitFest on Sunday 29th March. Get your tickets here to go on your own BIG JOURNEY with Michael and Little Bear in Oxford! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4sRmOCZ

Join Little Bear 🐻 for a new adventure with the incredible Michael Rosen @MichaelRosenYes at Oxford Literary Festival @OxfordLitFest on Sunday 29th March. Get your tickets here to go on your own BIG JOURNEY with Michael and Little Bear in Oxford! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4sRmOCZ

The cover for The Neverfear by Katherine Rundell has been revealed! Masked bandits, kidnapping, daring quests…the race is on. The third epic Impossible Creatures adventure arrives 27th August.

Join Little Bear 🐻 for a new adventure with the incredible Michael Rosen @MichaelRosenYes at Oxford Literary Festival @OxfordLitFest on Sunday 29th March. Get your tickets here to go on your own BIG JOURNEY with Michael and Little Bear in Oxford! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4sRmOCZ

Get up to mischief with Rory Sparkes 🐘 and the amazing Hugh Bonneville at Oxford Literary Festival @OxfordLitFest on Sunday 22nd March Tickets can be bought here 🎟️ : https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2026/march-22/rory-sparkes-and-the-elephant-in-the-room

Get up to mischief with Rory Sparkes 🐘 and the amazing Hugh Bonneville at Oxford Literary Festival @OxfordLitFest on Sunday 22nd March Tickets can be bought here 🎟️ : https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2026/march-22/rory-sparkes-and-the-elephant-in-the-room

Join Little Bear 🐻 for a new adventure with the incredible Michael Rosen @MichaelRosenYes at Oxford Literary Festival @OxfordLitFest on Sunday 29th March. Get your tickets here to go on your own BIG JOURNEY with Michael and Little Bear in Oxford! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4sRmOCZ

Join Daffodil for the Worst Birthday EVER at #CardiffKidsLitFest #GwylLlenPlantCaerdydd Joanna Nadin will be at Cardiff Children's Literature Festival this year on Sunday 26th April @CDFKidsLitFest Tickets are only £5 and can be purchased here: https://bit.ly/4cRNbEe

Bloomsbury Children's Books are pleased to announced two of our titles on the Zephyr list have been longlisted for the @JhalakPrize 2026! 🗺️ Wild Journey by A.M. Dassu 👻 Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai Congratulations to the authors and thank you team Jhalak!

Happy Publication Day to all our authors and illustrators 📚 Big beautiful boOoOks out today including … 👻Fiction 9+ Scare B’n’B by Catherine Doyle and illustrated by Rachael Dean

Revelio! 📚⚡️✨ Here it is, the dazzling cover of the brand-new Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Illustrated Edition with artwork by multi-award-winning artist Levi Pinfold. UK/ROW: bit.ly/4b4i3jn US: bit.ly/4rXTHOe Bloomsbury UK/ANZ exclusive pre-order offer and tote bag gift: bit.ly/3NiklCq

✨ Meet the characters of Chicken Hill ✨ Attack of the Zombie Cactus is the first book in the brilliant new full-colour graphic novel series from Beccy Blake - perfect for fans of Pablo and Splash and Bunny vs Monkey. Out now and available in all good bookshops! Welcome to weird 🐔🌵📘

Happy Publication Day! 📚🐻💥 Out now, online and at all good bookshops.

⚡📚 Say hello to Professor Dumbledore and Luna Lovegood! New editions in the Pocket Potters series, out today. (publishing 3rd March in the US with @scholastic).

Happy birthday Luna Lovegood!🫜👓💕🐴 💙🦅 Can you answer these 3 questions about your favourite Ravenclaw? 📚 🫜How did Luna first meet Harry Potter? 🫜Why does she wear Spectrespecs? 🫜What sort of beast is a Crumple-Horned Snorkack?

💕 Hop into Valentine’s Day with the Bunnies of Hoppity Hill 💕 Join our favourite bunnies on the cutest adventure as they search for the perfect hug. 🤗🌸🐇 Full of love and joy, it’s the sweetest gift for Valentine’s Day – and every day! Now available from all good bookshops 💞📚

👀First look at the covers of the NEW Hagrid and Dobby Pocket Potters! Perfect little character guides for kids starting their Harry Potter adventure. PRE-ORDER online now UK/ANZ bit.ly/3LMlfGI International bit.ly/3ZSVV4V US customers please visit Scholastic 📚⚡️

📘🌊🪼We are delighted to share the STUNNING cover for The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue by Zoulfa Katouh - author of global sensation As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow With beautiful cover art by Jenny Zemanek Coming 4th June and available to preorder now! 📘 waterstones.com/book/the-ocean…

Hop over to Hoppity Hill! 🐰 10 years of We’re Going on an Egg Hunt calls for something golden ✨ Meet The Bunnies of Hoppity Hill — a shiny anniversary edition, just in time for Easter 🐣💛 The perfect Easter treat for every little bunny - now available in all good bookshops 🐰✨

🐰✨ Our favourite bunnies are hopping off on a brand‑new adventure… Any guesses where they’re bouncing to next?

Something impossibly magical this way comes. Wednesday 3rd December, 12pm GMT.

Following the ceremony, we are proud to celebrate that The Poisoned King 🦁 by Katherine Rundell is the WINNER of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2025. Thank you so much to the booksellers who shortlisted this title and to the wonderful readers who voted. 📚

Join Amber Hamilton in Waterstones Arndale for a Romantasy panel along with M.A Kuzniar and Emma Hinds. Get ready to talk all things fantasy, magic, world building, queerness - and of course, romance! 🔮🌈💖 It's a night that you won't want to miss. 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4n79erT

Looking for something for the kids this half-term? Come join author and illustrator Sheena Dempsey in Lancashire and time-travelling penguins, Pablo and Splash 🐧, in a fun-filled session with behind the scenes insight on how Sheena makes her books! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4n9gOST

Delighted that the Booker Prize have launched the Children's Booker Prize! The judging panel will also include children, with a commitment to donating 30,000 copies of the shortlisted titles. 🏆 📚

Join Amber Hamilton in Waterstones Arndale for a Romantasy panel along with M.A Kuzniar and Emma Hinds. Get ready to talk all things fantasy, magic, world building, queerness - and of course, romance! 🔮🌈💖 It's a night that you won't want to miss. 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4n79erT